Toxic - Endorsed from the top down. Gossiping, defamation of character, revolving door (over 16 different staff members have come and gone in two years).
Mismanagement- Unclear direction with a non existent presence from the Founder. Further to that, the “chief of operations” promotes this culture through gas lighting and defamation along with unreasonable expectations.
Threatening behaviour - Believes they own LinkedIn connections (against LinkedIns terms of use policy and therefore void). Legal letters threatening relatively inexperienced former colleagues.
False values - Promotes values to clients with no genuine exercise of these within the business.
Cult of personality- Founder is infallible with no room for criticism, their word is effectively law, despite minimal experience in most sectors of recruitment.
Emotional - Decisions made based upon emotions, with the founder and SLT actively making derogatory comments about former clients who choose another service for their own reasoning.
Misguided - Focused on building personal brand over results, all to push for a sale so the founder can move on after.
Incompetence - Genuine inability by SLT with minimal experience in recruitment by decision makes, little understanding of market intricacies.
Financial Instability - Due to cyclical nature of client contracts, with failure to renew multiple clients following initial tenures the business relies upon a few constant contracts. The loss of a single contract can put significant pressure on the business